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Weekly Report - 12 March 2020 (WR-20-10)

Leader
Conjecture abounds when it comes to the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic.... Read More
Andean Countries
Less than a week after a negotiated agreement to appoint a new electoral council (CNE) in Venezuela [WR-20-09] – a rare (albeit tentative) step forward in the struggle for a peaceful solution to the country’s political crisis – these fledgling hopes of democratic progress were put in stark perspective on 6 March by a fire that destroyed the majority of the country’s electronic voting infrastructure.... Read More
A special session of the Bolivian legislative assembly was held in El Alto on 5 March, to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the city’s official foundation.... Read More
The emergence of an audio recording apparently implicating President Iván Duque – along with former president Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010) – in an illegal vote-buying operation, has sparked an intensification of the scrutiny into Duque’s 2018 presidential election campaign, escalating from an inconvenient distraction into a full-blown corruption scandal.... Read More
Brazil & Southern Cone
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro travelled to Florida on 7 March for his fourth visit to the US since he took over the presidency in January 2019.... Read More
A baffling story involving a former football star and fake passports is causing waves in Paraguay.... Read More
Chilean protesters kept their word [WR-20-09] as protest actions in the first 11 days of March, following the summer break, were of a similar magnitude and drew as much zeal as when unrest first broke out in October 2019.... Read More
BRAZIL | Guedes pushes fiscal reforms to help shield economy.... Read More
Mexico
It has not been a good week for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.... Read More
The ‘Tren Maya’ railway line that will connect the Yucatán peninsula with the rest of south-eastern Mexico is the flagship infrastructure development project of the government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.... Read More
MEXICO | Banxico intervenes in currency markets.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Guyana’s President David Granger addressed the nation on 9 March to appeal for calm one week on from general elections.... Read More
PANAMA | Government optimistic on growth.... Read More
Postscript
The rapid global spread of coronavirus is posing a major threat to Caribbean countries, with governments having to find a balance between the twin threats it faces to public health and, for many, to the mainstay of the economy: tourism.... Read More
“Last year we took decisions that would have helped us to prevent situations like what we are seeing today, but I opted for peace.”... Read More

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